Explore 3217 historical events from 1990–1999.
The persecution of Falun Gong is the campaign initiated in 1999 by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to eliminate the new religious movement Falun Gong in China, maintaining a doct…
The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide.
All Nippon Airways Flight 61 was a scheduled domestic flight from Tokyo Haneda Airport in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan and was en route to New Chitose Airport in Chitose, Japan, near Sapporo.…
ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Named after the first American ship to circumnavigate the g…
Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The…
Air Fiji Flight 121 (PC121/FAJ121) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Nausori International Airport in Fiji's capital Suva to Nadi International Airport in Nadi, operat…
Air Fiji flight 121 crashes while en route to Nadi, Fiji, killing all 17 people on board.
Thomas Michael John Fury is a British reality television personality and professional boxer. He took time off from his boxing career in 2019 to star in the fifth series of the ITV2…
Tommy Fury, English boxer
Cody Mathès Gakpo is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left winger or centre forward for Premier League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team.
Cody Gakpo, Dutch footballer
Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She first gained prominence starring as Maya Hart on the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World (2014–2017…
Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress
Hiroki Ito is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a centre-back, left-back and defensive midfielder for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Japan national team.
Hiroki Itō, Japanese footballer
The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Ladakh, then part of the Indian-administere…
Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
The Discovery Program is a series of Solar System exploration missions funded by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through its Planetary Missions Progra…
Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission…
The Gaisal train collision occurred on 2 August 1999, when two trains carrying about 2,500 people collided at the remote station of Gaisal in West Bengal, India. Owing to a signall…
The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a republic of Russia. It is situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, between the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. The republic form…
The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU…
Russian president Boris Yeltsin fires his prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire…
On August 10, 1999, at around 10:50 a.m. PT, American white supremacist Buford O. Furrow Jr. walked into the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center in the Granada Hills …
One person is killed and five people are injured in the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.
Óscar Mingueza García is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defender for La Liga club Celta de Vigo and the Spain national team. Mainly a centre-back, he can also pla…
Óscar Mingueza, Spanish footballer
Aníbal Ismael Moreno is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for River Plate and the Argentina national team.
Aníbal Moreno, Argentine footballer
Anastasia Dmitriyevna Gasanova is a Russian tennis player. Gasanova has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 121, achieved on 10 January 2022. She also has a career-high WTA…
Anastasia Gasanova, Russian tennis player
Laura Omloop is a Belgian pop singer who represented her country in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Kyiv, Ukraine, finishing in fourth place. Omloop sang the song "Zo ve…
Laura Omloop, Belgian singer-songwriter
Béni Ounif is a town and commune in Béchar Province, Algeria, coextensive with the district of Béni Ounif. It has a population of 10,732 as of the 2008 census, up from 8,199 in 199…
Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to…
An earthquake of moment magnitude 7.6 struck Kocaeli Province, Turkey on 17 August 1999. According to official figures, at least 18,373 people died and 48,901 people were injured d…
The 7.6 Mw İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving…
Belgrade is the capital and historic largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balk…
In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of…
Soyuz TM-29 was a Russian Soyuz spaceflight launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz 11A511U rocket. It docked with Mir on February 22, 1999 at 05:36 GMT with cosmonaut…
The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space…
Jamell Maurice Demons, known professionally by his stage name YNW Melly, is an American rapper and singer. He rose to fame in 2018 following the release of his single "Murder on My…
YNW Melly, American rapper
Samuel Chimerenka Chukwueze is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Fulham, on loan from Serie A club AC Milan. He also plays for the Ni…
Samuel Chukwueze, Nigerian footballer